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“landscape optimism”– Places journal features interview with Chris Reed
“I think that landscape urbanism, as a theory or body of knowledge, represents the most cogent alternative idea about the city that has confronted New Urbanists in a long time; so I think they’re...
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bayou, slough, rio, kill: a stream by many names
A gorgeous example of mapping toponyms, names given to places which reflect both the geographic character of a site and its cultural and linguistic history. Derek Watkins, cartographer, put together...
View Articledescribing, packaging and synthesizing the new role of landscape as...
“How do we describe, package, and synthesize the role of landscape as organizer?” asked Judith Stilgenbauer to a captive audience in the AIA building in downtown San Francisco. In her presentation,...
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making sure landscape performs: Jim Stickley on landscape urbanism at various...
Work and images by WRT “What is landscape urbanism? Is it the shaping of the urban landscape with an integrated landscape framework–or–is it what we’ve always done as landscape architects?” “What is...
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seen and heard: best of the week on storytelling, why we don’t read (about...
Social service design, underground parks, making a name for architecture, and storytelling? A number of fascinating articles have made the rounds this week. Here’s a recap of some of the best of them....
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KA-Connect 2012: The story of landscape urbanism
Last month I gave talks at the University of Virginia School of Architecture alongside Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG and Cassim Shephard of Urban Omnibus; and the following week I headed to the Knowledge...
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Cities as Symphonies: an excerpt from Claude Lévi-Strauss
The analogies for cities are endless: the idea of the concrete jungle a place for human betterment, settlement, advancement, and a place that holds form to the thoughts and imaginings of our...
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“Cities Should Be Like __________”: The Prats and Pitfalls of Prescriptive...
In Urban Composition, Mark C. Childs presents not only an introduction to the practice of conscientious urban design, but also advances an optimistic, collectivist vision of civil composition’s...
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The City Is Here For You To Use: 100 easy pieces [Adam Greenfield]
“We find ourselves at a moment in history in which the nature of cities, as form and experience both, is under pressure from a particular class of emerging technology. The advent of lightweight,...
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“Fuzzy Math” Call For Essays: How Do We Actually Measure Cities?
What is the language of measuring cities, landscapes, or human behaviors? Urban Omnibus put forth a call for essays on “Fuzzy Math,” inviting writers “to infuse the quantitative language that pervades...
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